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<p><font size="2"><strong>The MapBlog Help, and the MapBlog tutorial, provide detailed explanations of how the MapBlog works. The purpose of this document is to give you a condensed step-by-step overview of the process of adding a marker linked to a course document that you create.</strong></font></p>
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            <p><font size="2"><strong>Step 1: Create the course document you will associate with&nbsp;your selected&nbsp;location on the map</strong></font></p>
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            <font size="2">The course document you link with your map location must be created in a special area within your course. This area is called the <strong>Team Files Area</strong> and it is found under the Communicate tab of your course.</font></p>
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            <p><a href="$COURSE_PATH$team_files.png" target="_blank"><font size="2">Click here to view the image at a larger size</font></a></p>
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            <p><strong><font size="2">Step 2: Create or upload the document (file) that you will link&nbsp;to the MapBlog placemarker</font></strong></p>
            <p><font size="2">Click your name in the&nbsp;list of teams in the Team&nbsp;Files area. Next, click the Add Content link. As you will see, you can create a file using the built-in editor, or you can upload a file. </font></p>
            <p><font size="2">If you select &quot;Create A file&quot; you will need to provide a &quot;web friendly&quot; name for your file (you will be linking to this file using a URL).&nbsp;<strong>Don't use&nbsp;spaces or special characters in the file name. You should add .html as the file extension on the name you provide.&nbsp;</strong>For example, if&nbsp;you are researching and writing about the Battle of The Little Bighornl an appropriate file name would be:</font></p>
            <p><font size="2"><strong>BattleLittleBigHorn.html&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; or&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Battle_Little_Big_Horn.html </strong>(using underscores instead of spaces)</font></p>
            <p><font size="2">Having provided a name, you can enter your text using the simple editor, or you click the &quot;HTML Editor&quot; Link below the edit box to activate&nbsp;the HTML editor. The HTML editor allows you to add images, tables, and other formatting to your document. Be sure to save your file after making the edits.</font></p>
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            <p><font size="1">A document link seen in the Team Files area. Click the link to open the document. Click the Edit link below to edit the document. You can also rename the document if the name you provided is not appropriate.</font></p>
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            <p><strong><font size="2">Step 3: Get the URL of your file</font></strong></p>
            <p><font size="2">To link your file to a placemark in the MapBlog you'll need the URL (web address) of the file. The easiest way to get the URL is to click the link to your document (file) in the team files area after you save it. (this is shown at left). </font></p>
            <p><font size="2">This opens the file in your web browser. </font><font size="2">With the file open in your web browser you can copy the URL from the address bar of the browser.</font></p>
            <p><img src="$COURSE_PATH$team_files_getlink.png" alt="" /></p>
            <p><font size="3"><strong>Copy the full URL - seen above in light green. This is the URL that links to your document. You will use this URL in the MapBlog to link your placemarker with your document.</strong></font></p>
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            <p><strong>Step Four: Launch the MapBlog from your course assignment and add a placemark linked with your document</strong></p>
            <p>The point of creating a Team Files document is so you can link a placemarker in the MapBlog with that document.</p>
            <p>With the MapBlog open (use the link in the course assignment), click the Add a New Location link in upper right corner. This&nbsp;sets the MapBlog for adding a new placemarks.</p>
            <p>Now pan the map, and zoom in, so that you will able to click on the precise location where you want your marker to go. Note that you can use the &quot;satellite&quot; image&nbsp;view, or a standard road &quot;map&quot; like view. This is controlled using the buttons in the upper right corner of the map.</p>
            <p>As the image shows, you can zoom in and position your marker very precisely. The marker shown was placed on the map at the very location of the hill where Custer's Last Stand took place.</p>
            <p><a href="$COURSE_PATH$mapblog_add_point.png" target="_blank">Click here to see the image at full size</a></p>
            <p>When you click a point on the map&nbsp;you are prompted to enter the URL of the document you will link to that location. This is the document you created in the Team files area of the course as described in the preceding steps. You must also provide a label for your marker and your name (no spaces: example JohnDoe)</p>
            <p>After entering the information, click the <strong>Save</strong> button. At this point, a series of Dialog boxes ask you to verify that the information you entered is correct. If everything is OK, click the &quot;Return to the MapBlog&quot; link in the upper right to go back to the regular MapBlog view and view your placemark. When you click your placemarker, a window opens and displays the&nbsp;document you linked with the marker.</p>
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